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- Steelhead tag reports inform mortality study
- USFS extends comment period to April 20 on draft revised land management plan
- Avista Foundation, USDA invest in Northern Idaho’s economic future
- Kooskia, Stites enter into new waste agreement, resolving 2018 civil suit
- Jan. 29 CBC information meeting on area USFS projects
- ZIP report – Home prices highest in Riggins area
Sports
In April, the Free Press reported that bear tracks found on private property 2.5 air miles south of Grangeville were those of a grizzly. New i…
The Idaho High School Activities Association named Clearwater Valley’s Martha Smith the IHSAA’s 2020 1A Interscholastic Star, which is an awar…
The Grangeville boys had high hopes for baseball season this spring, and many of those who figured to be prominent on the high school team now…
Grangeville senior Dalaci Scheuerman was poised to move from the outfield to the infield to play third base this softball season.
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COTTONWOOD -- A funnel cloud was spotted a few miles east of Greencreek on May 26 at 9:30 a.m. At one point it looked like it touched down on the ground. There were several more smaller ones that day. In the early morning hours on Sunday, May 31, we had a terrible rainstorm. Weather is getti…
CLEARWATER VALLEY -- A beautiful spring morning provided the backdrop for the somber occasion of a Memorial Day commemoration at the Pine Ridge Cemetery near Kooskia. Members of the American Legion, Post No. 75, and VFW Post No. 5407, provided color guard and honor guard for the ceremony. Ro…
ELK CITY -- Sue Phillips says that as we move “through Governor Little's four stage plan, the Elk City Community Library will open Tuesday, June 2, from 2-5 p.m. The need to follow CDC's guidelines is very important and they will be posted on the front door of the school. Social distancing o…
RIGGINS -- Quote of the week: continuing on from the book, “Everything I need to Know to learned From a Golden Book.” “Go ahead and make a big deal over your birthday… (or graduation since it is that time of year). Dress up and go dancing…any kind of dancing…even your own home! Make somethin…
WHITE BIRD -- What happened to our weather…Mother Nature is at it again! We went from hot weather to 20 degrees cooler in a blink of an eye. Rivers are running high and debris is in the water.
CLEARWATER VALLEY -- Last Friday I cheered on the graduating seniors at both the Clearwater Valley parade, in my CV news area, and the Grangeville parade where I saw my great-nephew Quinn Hall. It was a little challenging to wave a “Congrats 2020 grads” sign, point a camera, wave and cheer a…
Opinion
Regarding Scott Perrin’s recent letter [May 27 issue] suggesting a new secondary novel virus exists, one which he posits might be more damaging than the COVID-19 virus. His Fear and Not Working 2020 syndrome, FANW20, is self-named and identified. For sure, it is true that some people are fee…
I would like to start this off by saying "Thank you," to the individual(s) who came out to Prairie View Cemetery and left coin(s) on all the veteran headstones this Memorial Day Weekend.
I visited my grave today: Sunday afternoon, before the Memorial Day rush. I went with siblings, not to visit my grave exactly, but the graves of our family. But right there next to our parents’ gravesite is my grave—undug, unused—empty.
I really appreciated Lt. Governor Janice McGeachin's editorial [May 20 online edition] exposing the heavy hand of government that is choking off the economic survival of Idahoans.
Obituaries
It is with great sorrow we announce the passing of Joshua Mich…
James Luther Cherry of Meridian, Idaho went home to our Lord o…
Robert “Bob” William Wilcox, 44, of Nezperce, Idaho, formerly …
Robert Douglas Crump ended his journey to meet the Lord May 27…
Mary Jean “Jeannie” Morris, 61, of Grangeville, Idaho died Wed…
Reverend Dr. Bill Virgin died unexpectedly in Lee’s Summit, MO…
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